I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

Garden Post Card

 Well, it is July and the garden, at least the part that has been watered, has exploded. Everything else is so dry the beach peas are crunchy under foot. I posted a few of these photos on facebook yesterday, but I realize many of you don’t go there, so...

Real News

While Chilkat Valley News editor Tom Morphet pedals through europe this summer ( he was just in Champagne drinking champagne) the women running the paper are shaking things up media-wise. They have re-booted the facebook page and are blogging breaking news at the CVN...

Sunday’s Thought

 From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and the subject of my MFA in creative writing thesis essay : “We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in a man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns...

Graduation Night

It was kind of a big night last night here at UAA in Anchorage. We had what they call a group dinner- a notch up from the cafeteria in a nicer room with hot food in chafing dishes on the buffet table- but we still had paper plates and plastic forks. Teacher Craig...

In God’s Novel

I haven’t had my coffee yet since there isn’t any available here in my dorm room at UAA so please excuse any typos. I’ve been grabbing a cup on the way to the morning lecture at the Starbucks in the UAA library. I also stayed up late practicing my...